English words starting with cros

Meanings of Crosier:

noun

A hooked staff carried by a bishop as a symbol of pastoral office.

Usage examples:

Abbots, abbesses and bishops were buried with their croziers, the pastoral staffs symbolic of their…

Meanings of Crosiers:

noun

A hooked staff carried by a bishop as a symbol of pastoral office.

Usage examples:

Abbots, abbesses and bishops were buried with their croziers, the pastoral staffs symbolic of their…

Meanings of Cross:

noun

A mark, object, or figure formed by two short intersecting lines or pieces (+ or ×).

Usage examples:

Place a cross against the preferred choice

verb

Go or extend across or to the other side of (an area, stretch of water, etc.).

Usage examples:

She has crossed the atlantic twice

adjective

Annoyed.

Usage examples:

He seemed to be very cross about something

combining form

Denoting movement or position across something.

Usage examples:

Cross-channel

Meanings of Cross out:

phrasal verb

Remove from a list

Meanings of Cross your fingers:

phrase

To put one of your arms, fingers, or legs over the top of the other

Usage examples:

She sat down and crossed her legs., he crossed his arms and stared at the judge without showing any…

Meanings of Cross-examination:

noun

The act of cross-examining (= asking detailed questions of) someone, especially a witness in a trial

Usage examples:

Under cross-examination, the witness admitted her evidence had been mostly lies., the defence team …

Meanings of Cross-examine:

verb

To ask detailed questions of someone, esp. during a trial, in order to discover if the person has been telling the truth

Usage examples:

Defense attorneys cross-examined the witness., [ u ] under cross-examination, she admitted she’d li…

Meanings of Cross-hatch:

verb

If two groups of parallel lines cross-hatch, or you cross-hatch them, they are close together and cross each other, often in order to show differences of light and darkness on a picture

Usage examples:

Cross-hatch the stripes to make them darker., the location was in one of those narrow little lanes …

Meanings of Cross-off:

phrasal verb

Remove from a list

Meanings of Cross-over:

phrasal verb

To change from one activity or style to another

Usage examples:

Charles crossed over from blues to gospel., the group's traditional black soul sound has crossed ov…

Meanings of Cross-party:

adjective

Including different political parties

Usage examples:

He is calling for cross-party talks on social care.

Meanings of Cross-question:

verb

To cross-examine

Meanings of Cross-questioning:

verb

Present participle of cross-question

Meanings of Cross-swords:

idiom

To have an argument with someone

Meanings of Cross-to-bear:

idiom

An unpleasant or painful situation or person that you have to accept and deal with, although you find it very difficult

Meanings of Crossable:

adjective

(of a river or road) allowing safe, easy, or unobstructed access from one side to the other.

Usage examples:

In places the usually crossable river had become five feet deep

Meanings of Crossbar:

noun

The horizontal bar between the two upright posts of a goal in football, rugby, hockey, etc.

Usage examples:

His goalbound effort into a gaping goal struck the crossbar and rebounded to safety.

Meanings of Crossbars:

noun

The horizontal bar between the two upright posts of a goal in football, rugby, hockey, etc.

Usage examples:

His goalbound effort into a gaping goal struck the crossbar and rebounded to safety.

Meanings of Crossbeam:

noun

A transverse beam.

Usage examples:

There was novelty in the track itself; brunel was to break away from the crude track of earlier lin…

Meanings of Crossbeams:

noun

A transverse beam.

Usage examples:

There was novelty in the track itself; brunel was to break away from the crude track of earlier lin…

Meanings of Crossbench:

noun

(in the house of lords and some other legislatures) a bench occupied by members who are independent of any political party.

Usage examples:

A cross-bench political outlook

Meanings of Crossbill:

noun

A thickset finch with a crossed bill adapted for extracting seeds from the cones of conifers. the plumage is typically red in the male and olive green in the female.

Usage examples:

Chickadees, crossbills, goldfinches, nuthatches, siskins, and woodpeckers pick the winged seeds out…

Meanings of Crossbones:

noun

See skull and crossbones at skull.

Meanings of Crossbow:

noun

A medieval bow of a kind that is fixed across a wooden support and has a groove for the bolt and a mechanism for drawing and releasing the string.

Usage examples:

The movie features many different races using many different types of longbows and crossbows in war…

Meanings of Crossbows:

noun

A medieval bow of a kind that is fixed across a wooden support and has a groove for the bolt and a mechanism for drawing and releasing the string.

Usage examples:

The movie features many different races using many different types of longbows and crossbows in war…